I am having a silly problem I just can't figure out. In my kernel I want to use a char array to hold values in the range 0-255 but am unable to do so, when I read back the char array on the host side it has no values in it. I have a simple test kernel that tries to fill the output array with the char values 1 through 10 as an example of my problem and have tested it on Apples OpenCL implementation as well as NVIDIA's so I assume i'm doing something wrong. If I make the output array of type int it works correctly. Thanks in advance